Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-01-08

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San Luis Obispo has begun an active war
fare against iramps.
Forty orange trees are to be placed in St.
James Park, San Jose.
The electric street railway at Los Angeles
Is pronounced a success.
Anaheim has 1000. 900 gallons Of wine in
its cellars awaiting shipment
A franchise has been granted for a new
gas company in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles promises TO make Its coming
Fair one Of the finest ever held.
Six sentences for violations Of the Ed.
munds' law at Ogden, Utah, Tuesday.
Reports from Baskerville, B. c., say there
is boom in quartz mining in Cariboo.
Twelve 64.pound guns for the defense Of
Victoria have reached Esquimalt, B. c.
San Luis obispo has instituted warfare
against occupants Of disreputable houses.
The rough stone for the dock at Mare Is.
land is to be quaried at Pine, Placer coun-
ty, Cal.
1t Is proposed to bond the town Of Chico
| for 500, 900 in order to construct water.
works.
The Copper Queen Mining Company is to
build a railway from Fairbanks to Bsbee,
Arizona.
J. A. Campbell has been arrested at Win.
nemucca for an embezzlement committed al
Sacramento.
1t is reported that Mexican troops are
ga thering conscripts on the Mexican side Of
the Nogales.
"Montana turnips" is the name by which
5000 or 500 Jumps Of bullion are known in
that Territory.
Ross, who has murdered several persons,
made his escape from the Albuquerque, N.
NJ, Jail Wednesday.
The Southern Pacific is TO open freight
and passenger Office at Los Angeles distinct
from the San Francisco office.
Safe crackers made an unsuccessful at.
tempt on the pottery depot at Elsinore, San
Diego county, Thursday morning.
John Mcguire has notified his theatrical
company at Butte, NJ. T., that they must
cease eating at a Chinese restaurant.
Al Carleton, who was arrested near Orc
vile for stage robbery, has been discharged,
there being no evidence to convict him.
Hugh Karnaghan killed George Fox, an
Englishman, aged ~ years, at Taylor, White
Pine county, this State, Christmas morning.
A San Diego merchant recently received
an order from an interior settlement for a
bible, bowie.knife and stock of playing
cards.
Andreas Pico, a disreputable Mexican,
was stabbed to death by his mistress, Mar.
guerite Gronin, at Los Angeles last Wednes-
day evening.
Santa Ana has shipped this season 20
cars Of old.storage grapes, $50 cars OF raj.
sins, 10 cars of walnuts, $50 cars Of oranges,
and IS cars OF lines.
San Diego has youth nine years old who
has double brain, head twice the ordina.
ry size, and although uneducated, is capable
Of improvising poetry.
The failure to agree upon who should play
"Macbeth" was the cause Of the disband.
ment Of a dramatic society at Palouse City
Washington Territory.
The Cold Storage Company, at Santa Ana,
Los Angeles county, shipped this season 10
carloads Of fruit, and propose to quadruple
the shipment next season.
A Seattle paper says the Tacoma Guards
consist, so we are informed, of one Captain,
four Lieutenants. seven Sergeants, eight
Corporals and nine privates.
More than $780, 900 Of American capital
are now invested in the San Jose district,
southeast of Monterey, Mexico. Some 90
mines have been developed and are now be-
ing worked.
The Standard Gaslight and Fuel Company
at Stockton, is confident of striking a strong
flow Of pure gas, and claims that Stockton
can be lighted now by the gas already OBJ.
tanned from the wells.
Before the completion Of work on the Cas-.
cade branch Of the Northern Pacific Road
it Is estimated that there will have been
expended 500, 900 in protecting the Chinese
from belligerent white men.
Edward Crutchley, aged about sixty years,
was hanged at Hamilton, White Pine coun.
ty, last Friday, for the killing Of John How.
lett. His last words were in praise of his
conduct, and he assured his hearers that he